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Michael Collette, CEO, COGNITIVE NETWORKS Jeff Minsky Director, OMD IGNITION, David Preisman, VP Interactive TV, SHOWTIME NETWORKS, Michael Strober, SVP Ad Sales, TURNER BROADCASTING, Ashley Swartz, CEO & Founder, FURIOUS MINDS, Heather Way Sr. Analyst, PARKS ASSOCIATES and Wendell Wenjen, Director of Smart TV Advertising & Interactive TV Platforms, LG ELECTRONICS participate in the "Smart TV Rising" panel on day 3 at Advertising Week 10 in New York September 25, 2013. Insider Images/Andrew Kelly (UNITED STATES)
2024 Skyland Trail Associates Spring Luncheon - March 15, 204 - Piedmont Driving Club - Photos by Kim Link
Adjaye Associates' new LEED Silver-certified William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library in Washington, DC
NASA Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations Karen Feldstein, left, speaks with UAE (United Arab Emirates) Ambassador to the US and Minister of State, Yousef Al Otaib, during an Iftar dinner with UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Frank Rubio, and guests, Thursday, March 21, 2024, at the UAE Embassy in Washington. Bowen and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
The highly anticipated Associated Factory Team RC8 will raise the performance bar for 1/8th off-road nitro buggies. The RC8 design utilizes proven engineering yet incorporates design ingenuity and industry leading concepts that will confirm Team Associated’s number one status which it has held for over 40 years.
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Quint Cobb and Associates are seasoned veterans in the real estate industry with combined experience of over over 17 years. Quint Cobb and Associates hold active licenses in real estate, mortgage finance, and property & casualty insurance. Quint Cobb and Associates offer a one-stop shop for his residential and commercial clients, Quint Cobb & Associates strive to not only educate, but streamline the real estate acquisition process. With a long and proven track record of success, Quint Cobb and Associates are uniquely qualified and have a passion for helping people achieve their goals in real estate.
Quint Cobb & Associates specialize in Residential and Commercial Financing, Investment Planning and Mortgage Relief Assistance in all 50 States.
Our team of mortgage analysts, attorneys, negotiators, processors and underwriters are chosen from the top 1% of their industries.
We are dedicated to providing our clients with the absolute best financing options by delivering individualized service, unmatched loan approval percentages and unparalleled lending flexibility and speed.
Quint Cobb & Associates have access to the power and speed of a direct banking line that has not been paralyzed by the losses and toxic loans that crippled the rest of the industry.
Quint Cobb & Associates also have the flexibility to broker to all remaining lenders (with tier one pricing and FHA backing in all 50 states).
We pride ourselves in our Underwriters (and the relationships and direct communication we maintain with them) to assure the highest loan approval percentages, loan processing speed and overall loan pull-through ratios possible.
Quint Cobb & Associates specialize in FHA loans, Short Refinances, Conventional, Jumbo and Commercial Loans, Residential and Commercial Loan-Modification Assistance, Short Sale Guidance and Investment Planning.
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David Sterman, Program Associate, International Security Program, New America;
Murtaza Hussain, Journalist, The Intercept Co-Author “Christie’s Conspiracy: The Real Story Behind the Fort Dix Five Plot”;
Mubin Shaikh Former Counterterrorism Operative, Canadian Forces Co-Author, Undercover Jihadi: Inside the Toronto 18 - Al Qaeda Inspired, Homegrown Terrorism in the West
At Shrader & Associates, LLP, our vision is simple: treat our clients as though they were members of our family. When you begin to work with a mesothelioma lawyer from Shrader & Associates, LLP, you can be assured that the same attorney will still be with you and your family for the duration of your case. In fact, we stay in close contact with our clients and their families even after we have helped them recover mesothelioma compensation, just to see how they are doing and to ask if there is anything we can do to help them.
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Arch. Bennetts Associates. First phase nearing completion, consisting of a 15-storey affordable apartment block named Reflections, developed by Family Mosaic. Completion expected Feb 2012. These balconies will have a good view of the City Road Basin. London Borough of Islington.
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Disc One:
01 - Even Dogs In The Wild
02 - Breakfast
03 - Party Fears Two
04 - Heart Of Glass
05 - Give
06 - It's Better This Way
07 - The Affectionate Punch
08 - Gloomy Sunday
Disc Two:
01 - Message Oblique Speech (cuts in)
02 - A Matter Of Gender
03 - Schampout
04 - Those First Impressions
05 - Club Country
06 - Waiting For The Loveboat
07 - Boys Keep Swinging
08 - Perhaps (cuts out)
09 - Party Fears Two (cuts in)
I always wondered if there was a "story" behind the bullfinch (domherre in Swedish) being such a popular motif for Christmas time, at least in the Nordic countries.
Well - today I found an answer! This story is from Norway.
From the Minneapolis Sons of Norway's Heritage Presentation program # 57:
THE CHRISTMAS BIRD
When the first snowflakes float down from wintry skies, the Norwegians start looking for the bird that has become closely associated with the Christmas season: the fluffy and cheerful bullfinch with its brilliant red or rosy feathers bringing a welcome burst of color to a bleak Nordic winter day. Flocks of bullfinches dot the naked branches of trees and bushes, swoop unexpectedly down into people’s gardens, crowding the sheaves of grain that people put up for the birds, and in general bring joy and excitement to both young and old. In
many areas of Norway it is referred to simply as “the Christmas bird.”
In Norwegian the bird is called dompap (DOHM’pahp), and its name has a double meaning. The first syllable of its name, dom, is pronounced the same way as the Norwegian word for foolish, so one interpretation of dompap (DOHM’pahp) is that it means “fool.” But don’t think for a minute that the dompap is a dummy! Far from it. Its name is derived from the German Dompfaff (DOHM’pfaff), which means “canon” and refers to the brightly colored clothing worn by some of the clergy. Namewise, the closest American equivalent to the dompap would thus be the cardinal.
According to legend, the dompap, or bullfinch, got its red color when it tried to pull the thorns out from the crown that was placed on Christ’s head. Blood streaming from Christ’s wounds wet the bird’s breast and the red color became its badge of honor.
The Cherokee Indians also have a beautiful explanation for the bullfinch’s color. According to their tradition, the bullfinch helped a wolf gain its eyesight back. To show its gratitude, the wolf led the bullfinch to a cliff with a broad stripe of red running across it. The little bird flew up to the cliff and painted its breast the brightest red and was named “red bird” from then on.
In the old days, the bullfinch was a messenger of both good and bad tidings. If the first bird to feed in the sheaf of grain set out for Christmas was a bullfinch, it would be a good year. In some places people believed that if the bullfinch came out of the woodlands in the winter, this meant that the weather would be bad with lots of snow and cold days.
The bullfinch is not known as a songbird—its song is rather low and grating—but it is a very good imitator. In earlier days, young bullfinches were caught and trained to imitate short melodies. People kept caged bullfinches in their home and the training and exporting of the birds was at one time a full-blown business.
But the bullfinch was not well-suited for a life in captivity. Sudden excitement or agitation could be fatal. One of the many stories to illustrate this tells about a tame bullfinch living with an old woman. She used to let the bird fly around in her house, singing its songs and doing whatever it felt like doing. But one afternoon the bird was so active that she could not stand the constant fluttering around. She put the bird in its cage and covered it up. The bird sang a couple of notes and then grew silent. When she checked on it, it was dead.
Tame bullfinches were believed to have the ability to cure serious illnesses like jaundice and lung diseases. People believed that a caged bullfinch in the sick room would extract the disease from the affected person. Did it actually work? Well, the story does not tell and there is probably not a Norwegian around today who has tried the bullfinch cure, but the bird is beneficial to modern Norwegians in other ways.
No other bird can create such a feeling of cheerfulness and good expectations. One of the most popular Norwegian paintings from the last century shows a bullfinch fluffing its rosy feathers against a background of virgin-white snow and the bullfinch motif is used over and over again on the Christmas cards Norwegians send to their family and friends.
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The photo shows two embroideries created by my mother and a small tree ornament. :-)
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President's and provost's awards were just a few of the accolades distributed at the Spring Meeting of the Faculty and Associates on April 26.
Photos by Ellman Photography.
2022 Mickey Leland Research Associate Mychal Amoafo working on a presentation discussing his project, which focuses on Intelligent Sensors for Control. Mychal is working on the Advanced Systems Integration Team. Typical process data is analyzed in real time and used to infer other process factors: information from the associated chemistry and physics that can then be used to improve sensitivity, control, process stability. For example, a flame temperature sensor for the Hyper combustor based upon calculating the adiabatic flame temperature. Once this is calibrated against the process response, then we can determine the real-time equivalence ratios, flows, and heat fluxes. In the thermal energy storage model it will give us the driving force for the energy input and then the wall temperature can be used to characterize the inventory of stored energy. Approaches including PCA (Dynamic or sampled, unsupervised) and neural networks (supervised) will be applied for dimensionality reduction and fault detection. We can force neural networks to do dimensionality reduction by designing encoder (or even an autoencoder) and decoder network. The encoder will reduce the dimensionality and we can analyze this reduced dataset for insight into fault detection. The student may use python to obtain initial results and reproduce in MATLAB if time is still available.
We toured a group of AIA Central Valley Associates through our SMUD Headquarters Renovation construction site so they can see firsthand what a major renovation of an historic building entails.
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The SMUD Headquarters is truly a landmark of mid-century modern design. After 60 years of continuous use, SMUD has committed to a complete refurbishment of their headquarters building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
In collaboration with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, we will pare the building back to its steel structure, upgrading all dated materials and systems. Glazing, solar shades, precast concrete and Wayne Thiebaud’s mosaic tile mural, Water City, will be carefully preserved; new efficient lighting, HVAC and data systems will be fully integrated to bring this iconic headquarters into the 21st century.
Also included in this renovation are site and landscape improvements designed to historically maintain significant site features.
2022 Mickey Leland Research Associate Mychal Amoafo working in the lab with mentor Larry Shadle. Mychal is working on the Advanced Systems Integration Team and his project is Intelligent Sensors for Control. In this research, typical process data is analyzed in real time and used to infer other process factors: information from the associated chemistry and physics that can then be used to improve sensitivity, control, process stability. For example, a flame temperature sensor for the Hyper combustor based upon calculating the adiabatic flame temperature. Once this is calibrated against the process response, then we can determine the real-time equivalence ratios, flows, and heat fluxes. In the thermal energy storage model it will give us the driving force for the energy input and then the wall temperature can be used to characterize the inventory of stored energy. Approaches including PCA (Dynamic or sampled, unsupervised) and neural networks (supervised) will be applied for dimensionality reduction and fault detection. We can force neural networks to do dimensionality reduction by designing encoder (or even an autoencoder) and decoder network. The encoder will reduce the dimensionality and we can analyze this reduced dataset for insight into fault detection. The student may use python to obtain initial results and reproduce in MATLAB if time is still available.
On Wednesday, May 14th, 38 groups of the Associates & Affiliates (A&As) came together to celebrate 100 years of commitment in raising significant funds for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
On Wednesday, May 14th, 38 groups of the Associates & Affiliates (A&As) came together to celebrate 100 years of commitment in raising significant funds for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Bobby Gregg, associate professor of robotics, speaking with students and visitors following the panel presentation at "The Testing Lab” a multifaceted event focused on powered exoskeletons in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building Atrium on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
The Testing Lab is a new series from the University of Michigan Robotics Department, putting robots to the test to examine how far they have come and what the future may hold. This was the first installment of the series and took a look at the possibilities associated with powered exoskeletons with a demonstration as well as an expert panel taking questions from the audience.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Cloth store associated with former tenterfields; now derelict. 1866, for
Porritt's Stubbins Vale Mill; raised c.1880. Coursed rock-faced
sandstone, except the west wall which is of coursed rubble; no roof.
Square plan. Designed as an eye-catcher. Formerly single-storey, now 2
storeys, 3 windows, symmetrical; with simple oversailing battlements to
the north, east and south sides. The architectural front to the east has
3 unglazed vertical-rectangular windows on each floor; both sides have
one similar window on each floor; and the entrance front to the west has
a large round-headed doorway in the centre of the ground floor and a
loading doorway above this approached by stone steps flush with the wall
to the right (but now mostly fallen), both flanked by windows like those
at the front but that to the right at ground floor now blocked. Interior
now a void. History: used to store cloths before and after they were
stretched on tenters; shown in a photograph of c.1870 as a single-storey
building, with cloths on long tenter-frames in the field to the rear of
it.
Listing NGR: SD7889318309
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright
Built between 1959 and 1962, this Modern Futurist and Googie building was designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates for Trans World Airlines to serve as a Flight Center, or Terminal headhouse, for their passenger services at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The building is an example of thin shell construction, with a parabolic and curved sculptural concrete roof and concrete columns, with many surfaces of the building's structure and exterior being tapered or curved. The building also appears to take inspiration from natural forms, with the roofs appearing like the wings of a bird or bat taking flight. The building served as a passenger terminal from 1962 until 2001, when it was closed.
The building's exterior is dominated by a thin shell concrete roof with parabolic curves, which is divided by ribs into four segments, with the larger, symmetrical north and south segments tapering towards the tallest points of the exterior walls, and soar over angled glass curtain walls underneath. At the ends of the four ribs are Y-shaped concrete columns that curve outwards towards the top and bottom, distributing the weight of the roof structure directly to the foundation. The east and west segments of the roof are smaller, with the west roof angling downwards and forming a canopy over the front entrance with a funnel-shaped sculptural concrete scupper that empties rainwater into a low grate over a drain on the west side of the driveway in front of the building, and the east roof angling slightly upwards, originally providing sweeping views of the tarmac and airfield beyond. The exterior walls of the building beneath the sculptural roof consist of glass curtain walls, with the western exterior wall sitting to the east of the columns and the eastern exterior wall being partially comprised of the eastern columns, with the curtain wall located in the openings between the columns. To the east and west of the taller central section are two half crescent-shaped wings with low-slope roofs, with a curved wall, integrated concrete canopy, tall walls at the ends, and regularly-spaced door openings. To the rear, two concrete tubes with elliptical profiles formerly linked the headhouse to the original concourses, and today link the historic building to the new Terminal 5 and Hotel Towers.
Inside, the building features a great hall with a central mezzanine, and features curved concrete walls and columns, complex staircases, aluminum railings, ticket counters in the two halls to either side of the front entrance, a clock at the center of the ceiling, and skylights below the ribs of the roof. The space features penny tile floors, concrete walls and built-in furniture, red carpeting, and opalescent glass signage. On the west side of the great hall, near the entrance, is a curved concrete counter in front of a large signboard housed in a sculptural concrete and metal shell that once displayed departing and arriving flights. On the north and south sides of this space are former ticket counters and baggage drops, which sit below a vaulted ceiling, with linear light fixtures suspended between curved sculptural concrete piers that terminate some ways below the ceiling. To the east of the entrance is a staircase with minimalist aluminum railings, beyond which is a cantilevered concrete bridge, with balconies and spaces with low ceilings to either side, off which are several shops, restrooms, and telephone booths. On the east side of the bridge is a large sunken lounge with red carpet and concrete benches with red upholstered cushions, surrounded by low concrete walls that feature red-cushioned benches on either side, sitting below a metal analog signboard mounted to the inside of the curtain wall. To the north and south of the lounge are the entrances to the concrete tubes that once provided access to the concourses, which are elliptical in shape, with red carpeted floors and white walls and a white ceiling. On the mezzanine are several former lounges and a restaurant, which feature historic mid-20th Century finishes and fixtures.
The complex includes two contemporary hotel towers, the Saarinen and Hughes wings, which were designed carefully to harmonize with the original building and match its character. The two wings feature concrete end walls, curved Miesian glass curtain walls, and interiors with red carpeting, wooden paneling, brass fittings and fixtures, and white walls and ceilings. The only substantial modification to the structure's significant interior spaces was the puncturing of the two concrete tubes to provide access to these towers. The former terminal also features several service areas that were not previously open to visitors, which today house a massive fitness center, a cavernous underground conference center, and various meeting rooms and ballrooms, with all of these spaces, except the fitness center, being redesigned to match the mid-20th Century modern aesthetics of the rest of the building, with new fixtures, furnishings, and finishes that are inspired directly by the time period in which the building was built, and are nearly seamless in appearance with the rest of the building.
The fantastic building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1994, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, the new Terminal 5, occupied by JetBlue, was built, which wraps the structure to the east, and was designed by Gensler, and was carefully placed so as to avoid altering or damaging the character-defining features of the historic terminal. Between 2016 and 2019, the building was rehabilitated in an adaptive reuse project that converted it into the TWA Hotel, which was carried out under the direction of Beyer Blinder Belle, Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, Stonehill Taylor, INC Architecture and Design, as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and MCR/Morse Development. The hotel features 512 guest rooms, large event spaces, a rooftop pool at the top of the Hughes Wing, a large basement fitness center, and a Lockheed Constellation L-1649A "Connie" on a paved courtyard to the east of the building, which houses a cocktail lounge. The hotel is heavily themed around the 1960s, and was very carefully designed to preserve the character of this iconic landmark.